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We’ve excelled ourselves in the gluttony stakes for our efforts at Curry Capital on Bigg Market yesterday evening.

Curry Capital is not just any old Indian restaurant. It’s famous, seemingly world renowned as the home of the hottest curry in the world (according to their “statistics”) and the aptly named Curry Hell Challenge.

If you can eat a bowl of curry made almost entirely from chilli powder and chilli seeds, that will literally disintegrate the roof of your mouth, then you eat for free. But be warned - and we quote from Curry Capital’s own website - “if you find you are experiencing problems with your lover(s) due to consumption, then under no circumstances are you entitled to blame us.”

Curry Capital is cheap and cheerful; unlike many Indian restaurants which overcharge for underwhelming food, it doesn’t try to be anything it isn’t. The menu offers a number of special deals, starting from £3.95 for a one course lunchtime meal deal to the aforementioned Viz special - £10.95 for a four course banquet.

Feeling peckish, we chose the Viz special, which sounded too good to be true. The four courses consist of: an appetiser of a poppadom with all the pickles (lime pickle, mango chutney, raita and onion salad); a choice of starters, from which we chose the onion bhaji and chicken tikka; a choice of main courses in which you select your meat or vegetable then pick your choice of curry sauce from a wide
range. We recommend the Jalfrezi, Balti or Rogan Josh.

With your curry you then have the option of a flavoured pilau rice or chips and a choice of naan
breads (keema, garlic, peshwari, coriander or plain). And if that’s not enough to fill you up, you can choose ice cream for dessert or a liquor coffee. Oh, and to top it all off, you get a free soft drink or glass of wine with your meal. Unbelievable in the age of the credit crunch and a depressing economy.

On the downside, we felt a little conspicuous as we tucked into our meals, with few more than 5 other people in the entire restaurant, so the atmosphere was somewhat lacking. The environment leaves a lot to be desired too; yes there is Bhangra playing in the background, but nothing else speaks of Asia - with garish old carpets from the 70’s, bland walls and bland artworks.

But for £10.95 for all of the above menu, you can create your own atmosphere with sheer glee from the value for money.

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